DECE3IBEK 12. laOl. 



The Weekly Florists' Review. 



79 



A Wreath of Foliage and Orchids. 



A FOLIAGE WREATH. 



The accompanying engraving is from 

 a photograph of a wreath of foliage and 

 orchids arranged by "Shibeley, the flor- 

 ist," San Francisco. He speaks of it 

 as "some autumn leaves, a few orchids, 

 wheat and ribbon." He does not say 

 what "autumn foliage" it is, and it 

 would seem to be from a vine. 



Anyway the effect is certainly excel- 

 lent and we are glad of the opportun- 

 ity to reproduce the photograph. The 

 material is most admirably handled and 

 the picture will, we ar^ sure, be sug- 

 gestive and helpful to many. 



PHILADELPHIA. 



The Market. 



The tap. lap. of tlie hammer heard in 

 many of our commission houses indicates 

 that the social season is in full swing 

 in points that draw their supply of cut 

 flowers from this city. These shipping 

 orders nearly always demand choice 

 stock and their effect on our market is 

 felt more and more each season. Prices 

 are very much the same as one week 

 ago with the demand sufficient to clear 

 up all fine stock. Large quantities of 

 Beauties are coming in that find ready 

 sale. Tea roses are moving well and 

 on one or two days select was scarce. 



Carnations are increasing in quantity 

 and improving in quality. Edward Reid 

 is handling great numbers of them at 

 from $2 to $3 a hundred. Valley is less 

 plentiful than during the late fall, but 

 enough is promised for the end of this 



month. Double violets continue scarce. 

 Mr. Conley is sending in some splendid 

 blooms to H. H. Battles; they are prob- 

 ably the finest coming in town today. 



The use of orchids is becoming more 

 general throughout the city. Formerly 

 they could be had only in the leading 

 down town stores, now the best uptown- 

 ers have them too. J. J. Habermehl's 

 Sons receive a regular shipment from 

 Geo. Field, of Washington, D. C. An 

 a Kempt is being made to advance the 

 price of Cypripedium insigne to 20 cents 

 each by a couple of the larger growers. 

 Jlany blooms, however, are sold at the 

 old price, 15 cents each. 



Before closing the market report it 

 may be of interest to note that the Queen 

 of Edgely rose is making a place for it- 

 self beside American Beauty as a distinct 

 variety of great merit. E. Bernheimer 

 handles some of this variety and is much 

 pleased with it. 



Various Notes. 



.Jasper Lorimer, of Croyden, Pa., has 

 made a specialty of yellow daisies for 

 the past few years, bringing them into 

 flower a little earlier each season. He 

 is now cutting nice flowers with stems 

 that will soon pass from^medium to long. 



I.yeo Niessen spent a day early this 

 month among his carnation growers. 

 He is quite enthusiastic over the condi- 

 tion of their stock, which is finer than 

 ever. Very little loss from stem rot was 

 found, one large place having lost but 

 2 per cent of the plants set out in the 

 field, from all causes. 



City councils passed appropriate reso- 

 lutions last week on the death of their 



esteemed fellow member, Thomas Mee- 

 han. It is proposed to name a small 

 park in his honor. 



Harry Huff, lately with H. I. Faust, 

 of Merion. has gone into the cut fern 

 business on his own account. 



E. Bernheimer is receiving a red seed- 

 ling carnation in quantity described as 

 deeper than Thomas Cartledge, of good 

 size and stiff stem. 



The Lehman wagon heater is an excel- 

 lent thing for our retail florists during 

 the cold weather. H. F. Mitchell is the 

 local agent for this valuable invention. 



Mrs. George Redles, wife of the secre- 

 tary and treasurer of the Germantown 

 Horticultural .Society, died on Thursday 

 of last week after a long illness. Mr. 

 Redles has the deep sympathy of his 

 many florist friends. Phil. 



UTICA, N. Y. 



The literary drummers don't seem to 

 call at Utica' much of late. This is a 

 distinct and exceptional advantage to the 

 pent up city itself but distressing to 

 the outside world of florists who like 

 to know what Peter Crowe. Billy Math- 

 ews, Alderman Baker and all the rest are 

 doing, so I stopped off for a day. There 

 is always a bed and breakfast for me at 

 Mr. Crowe's, but your stay there would 

 be more pleasant in its retrospect if 

 \'0u were allowed to eat simply what was 

 good and sufficient for you. What with 

 Jersey cream, chicken, oysters, beef- 

 steak, and irrigation of various brands, 

 you are in a state of distention all the 

 time. You have read of the meals of the 

 Terrible Turks that visit this country to 

 wrestle and get drowned going home. 

 Well, it is something like it, only more 

 so. 



But we waddled as best we could after 

 lunch to view the new block of rose 

 houses which Mr. Crowe built this past 

 summer. We have seen such blocks, or 

 something very near. It was fine to look 

 upon and the roses, nearly all Brides- 

 maid and Bride, could not possibly be 

 finer. The earliest were planted in Au- 

 gust and the last end of September and 

 the latest planted are now (or were four 

 weeks ago) giving a fine cut. The block 

 consists of six houses, each 150x18, all 

 connected, with no partition wall be- 

 tween them, just red cedar 4x4 posts 

 supporting the gutter. They are equal 

 span, one-quarter pitch houses, one path 

 in center of house and a path each side 

 next the wall, or rather posts, for there 

 is no wall, only a 4x4 post and five run 

 of IJ-inch steam pipes. Mr. Crowe said 

 the pitch was one-quarter, and without 

 stopping to doubt it, I would rather say 

 now that they were one-third pitch. 

 There didn't seem a dark or gloomy spot 

 in the whole range. If there was a par- 

 tition between the houses there would be, 

 but the whole field, as you may call it, 

 was daylight. In our dark and stormy 

 winters, particularly the months of De- 

 cember, January and February, it is not 

 much use catering to the direct rays of 

 the sun, because he is mostly behind a 

 cloud when above the horizon, but there 

 is every reason to catch every ray of 

 light, and light comes from the north as 

 well as the south, so as much as possible 

 must be glass and little as possible 

 wood. 



When Mr. Crowe sends out his Adian- 

 tum Bardii everyone should grow it. for 

 it is a great fern and he pulls it to pieces 

 and makes it grow as freely planted out 

 on benches as we used to grow rhubarb 



